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Pulmonology - Diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases
Pulmonology - Diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases
Pulmonology (from the Latin pulmo - a lung and lógos - teaching), Section of Clinical Medicine, who studies diseases of the respiratory system: trachea, bronchus, lung and pleura. Pulmonologist - a doctor who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the respiratory system (trachea, bronchi, lungs).
A separate area of pulmonology - Phthisiology - dedicated to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. In modern medicine there is a trend towards integration of Pulmonology and Phthisiology, due to changes in the flow of tuberculosis, approaching in its manifestations to immunoallergicheskimi, professional, neoplastic, parasitic lesions in the lungs. The problem of tuberculosis is becoming increasingly important at this time.
Modern diagnostic methods in pulmonology (computed tomography, bronchoscopy, radiological studies, a large number of laboratory techniques, etc.) can detect respiratory diseases at an early stage and carry out effective prevention and treatment.
